DACA Families Left Out of Pandemic Aid
Parents of DACA recipients not eligible for stimulus checks and recipients excluded from emergency education grants.
May 28th, 2020
UW Faculty Blast President’s ‘Power Grab’
COVID-19 plan by UW System leader Ray Cross will centralize power, they charge.
May 26th, 2020
Elections Commission Notes ‘Lessons Learned’
Report says 23,186 ballots in April election were rejected and 120,989 never returned.
May 19th, 2020
Legislative Candidate Collected Signatures By Mail
Deb Andraca received five times the necessary nomination signatures.
May 16th, 2020
Tiffany Wins Northwoods Special Election
Republican wins congressional race by 14 points, down from Trump’s 20 point margin in 2016.
May 13th, 2020
Pandemic Compounds Student Debt Crisis
64% of Wisconsin’s 2018 graduates had debt, averaging $31,705 per person.
May 5th, 2020
College Graduates Face a Shaky Future
Stressful, awful, sad, graduating into a cratered economy.
Apr 28th, 2020
Right-Wing Groups Linked to #ReopenWisconsin Campaign
Members of Americans for Prosperity, American Majority and John Birch Society have their hands in the campaign.
Apr 23rd, 2020
Wisconsin’s Missing Absentee Ballots
New Elections Commission data shows huge number of ballots across the state didn’t arrive on time.
Apr 20th, 2020
Reopen Wisconsin Rally Planned
A group is organizing a protest of the stay at home order, much like the one in Michigan.
Apr 16th, 2020
How Will Candidates Get Nomination Signatures?
Those running for fall elections can now gather signatures. But how to do this during a pandemic?
Apr 15th, 2020
Zoombombing, Phishing Threaten Governments
“What we’re seeing is an increase in all forms of cyberattacks.”
Apr 15th, 2020
Pandemic Decimates Urban Polling Places
Lack of workers leaves few voting sites open in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, Racine.
Apr 7th, 2020
Could Quarantine Cause More Domestic Violence?
Safer-at-Home not necessarily true for victims of child abuse.
Mar 25th, 2020
Change Election Laws, Mayors Urge
Mayors of Green Bay, Appleton, Neenah, call for a vote-by-mail only April election.
Mar 22nd, 2020
Wisconsin Court System Slows to A Crawl
State courts cancel all "non-essential" duties. Is the justice system still functioning?
Mar 19th, 2020
Extra Pens, Sanitized Voting Machines
Voting in spring election will be drastically changed by COVID-19, with many voting by mail.
Mar 17th, 2020
